Arrow by Marc Guggenheim

Author:Marc Guggenheim [Guggenheim, Marc]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Titan
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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No one questioned her as she walked down the hallway. Beige walls, pastel artwork in blond wood frames, and tile on the floor a pale eggshell-and-sage-green speckle turned off-white from the cast of the fluorescent lights above. Everything seemed bland, muted, designed to keep people calm in uncalm times.

Until she reached the uniformed Star City police officer reading a magazine outside room 623 of Starling General. He was lanky, stretched tall, all knees and shoulders in the chair he sat in. He had the sleek otter build of a swimmer. He stood out, his dark blue SCPD uniform a harsh contrast as it ate the light.

He didn’t stand as she approached, but he did give her the once up and down, his eyes flinty, checking to see if she was a threat. He seemed to dismiss the notion, then gave her another up and down look over, this time with a cocky grin and a sparkle in his eye.

She shrugged as she drew near, moving the hem of her short-cropped leather jacket.

Exposing her badge.

The cocky grin disappeared as he jumped to his feet.

She raised her hand, reassuring him. “It’s alright, Officer—”

“Kannan, ma’am.”

“Drake, Dinah.” Her hand went out between them. It took a moment for him to reach out and shake it, and when he did it only lasted a second. She noted that he didn’t give his first name as she had.

“I’m here to ask our suspect a few questions,” she said.

“I thought he was the victim of a crime?” Officer Kannan scratched the bottom edge of his jaw. “He took a real beating from the Arrow.”

“I think they call him Green Arrow now.”

“Green Arrow, Blue Arrow, Purple Arrow,” he said, his voice harsh. “It don’t matter what they call him.”

Great, she thought, this guy doesn’t like vigilantes.

Then again, neither had she once.

Before she became one.

“We have two eyewitnesses who put him as part of a crew called ‘the X gang,’” she replied. “They tried to rob the Cashmere Club. He’s not just some civilian who got jumped.”

“He looks like he should be dead,” Kannan said. “Nobody should’ve lived through a beating like that.”

“I’ll see that when I go in.”

Officer Kannan nodded. “You want me to keep my place? ’Cause I could go take care of some business.”

“Go stretch your legs, do your business, get some air and some coffee.” She waved him off. “I’ll handle this for the next half-hour, so be back before then.”

“Thank you, ma’am.” He touched his fingertips to his brow in a salute.

Dinah watched him walk down the hall, pausing to check the nurses’ station. She allowed a tiny smile when all the nurses ignored him completely, and he kept going.

Once he’d rounded the corner, she pushed the door open.

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